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The femmes muse on the new world order of social media and the dangers of oversharing.

Amy: Miley Cyrus recently made news by deleting her Twitter account. She explained it like this: “I often complain to the ones closest to me that I don’t seem to have much of a private life any more and part of that is my fault. How can I whine about my life being to public if I am the one telling the world what I am doing? Some things in my life need to say in my life only and not on some gossip site.” Of course, she keeps talking to the public about disconnecting herself from public social networking sites.

Julia: Handy, that! Do you think she will be an isolated incident, or do you guys see lots of folks following her lead and disconnecting like this?

Amy: I have a feeling a lot of celebs and politicians will follow her lead.

Elizabeth: I don’t know. I feel like celebs who create Twitter accounts and use them for personal stuff know what they are getting into.

Julia: Yeah, me too E.

Elizabeth: Like LOHAN. I follow her on Twitter and she tweets only personal stuff and inside jokes.

Amy: I think that unlike Linds, a lot of celebs know how much to share and know better than to overshare stuff they don't want the world talking about.

Julia: I think some folks are likely to tune out eventually. Twitter burn out an' all. But there are so many celebs and artists who use it brilliantly to keep in touch with their fans. I don't think they're going anywhere. It's too great a resource.

Amy: But at the same time, the news is always reporting what someone said on their Twitter.

Julia: Totes, Amy.

Amy: Like in the case of Terry Moran letting everyone know via Twitter that Obama called Kanye a jackass.

Julia: Ha! That was awesome. It's interesting to see who's savvy about it and who isn't. 

The Empress has no MEME filter!

Amy: Politicians, news reporters, all of them use it with a blind eye to how fast news travels.

Julia: I think they're starting to get the picture after the Moran story. I mean, hellllloooo!

Elizabeth: So true. Here's the paradox though. I appreciate professional media peeps who use Twitter for work or artists to promote their work as a way to get the word out BUT from a more performance-arty POV, I LOVE when people get all